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Losing my virginity!

Let the title of this post trick you not, since it does not refer to a personal past experience but rather to " Losing my virgin ity ", the book by the British multimillionaire entrepreneur Richard Bransson . Owner of Virgin, a brand that runs many different sub-businesses. like a tree with different branches, all under the same name, at the age of 16 he started his first business selling advertise space for a student magazine. He then moved on to start selling records via post office until the time he decided to open his first record store beneath a shoe store. The agreement was to run his record store rent free, only if he could attract more shoe customers something that turned out to be a success. The rest is history of course... Virgin established itself as a well known brand for record stores ( Virgin Megastores ), air company ( Virgin Atlantic ), trains, cell phones, financial services and maybe space services in the future... The company's overall philosophy